Guest dialog Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 (edited) Well I am at a loss for words with how bad I officially think 3DS Max is after working with it over the years. Im on version 2014 now and having nothing but issues with a skyscraper scene. It has a fair amount of geometry (1500 objects or so) and about 3,000,000 polys (nothing more than a tree or two would normally see). I am finding collapsing, attaching, or trying to duplicate the tower I am working on just freezes max. Saving out files is sometimes giving an "error Outputting" and crashes. My system is brand new... 64gb Ram New K6000 dual 10 core processors 480gb SSD At a loss for words on this... is there any other software on the market people are familiar with? Anyone have any tricks for managing a scene like this? All I need to do is copy the tower I have now and I can even do that. Edited January 3, 2014 by dialog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 While collapsing and attaching, keep your resource monitor open and keep an eye on your available RAM, and when it climbs high type the following into the maxscript listener in the lower left corner of the Max workspace and press enter: gc()This is what the listener looks like, type into the white box: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dialog Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 OK. I will try that....although I have done the gc() , just not while in the process of collapsing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beestee Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Also, if you are using edit mesh to collapse, try switching to an edit poly, it is far more efficient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dialog Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Problem is, I dont even come CLOSE to my max ram... I hit 11gb-15gb tops... computer has 64gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dialog Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Thanks. I have Edit Poly... although some are stacked. I find it freezes a lot with layers and all that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Hm, sounds very strange? ... 1. Check your display driver for Windows, who knows, maybe some difolt win driver is installed instead of nvidia quadro driver 2. Turn on NITROUS display driver ON, inside 3DSMAX viewport configuration. 3. If it is poss, feel free to send the max file via mail, etc..to check it. 4. Do you have some multiscatter on? ... As I see there is some problem, for that kind of PC, that scene is a really piece of cake! Best R! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dialog Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 Ya the top 3 are all set to what they should be. I can zip it up and send via wetransfer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 sent you PM... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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